Making a Renaissance Hoop Skirt | Sewing a Tudor Period Spanish Farthingale for my Sakizo Cosplay

[@anastasiamaliuha5481]

It's all coming together! Baby Bat looks both regal and adorable through the video. Also your sewing bujo/project bible is always so neat and lovely, you can totally make a video about planning your projects. Looking forward to the next one!

[@moth.faerie]

yess it's so exciting! baby bat really showed up for this one, haha she was being so sweet! I definitely want to make a video about using my bullet journal for projects! It helps so much with organization and keeping track of everything, much better than writing all my notes on scraps of paper 😅

[@picassomanu185]

Baby Bat chattering was very cute! Also, I have pro tip for people, who, like me, may not have room to store any and all "crinoline" periods iterations: When you sew your farthingdale (also known as an A line crinoline in wedding shops), add a flounce with a tie channel on the first "rung" of the farthingdale, one that will be half the height of the one there already, just let it rest there, it's not going to bother you in anyway. Come the time when you need a 1850 ish classic crinoline, just use the extra "flounce" as your new waistline. Changing height will give you that classic dome shape out of an A line, and honestly, if you have the right (quilted!) petticoat on top, nobody is going to know a thing. The crinoline may be a bit short, but if you're OCD like me, you can add a bottom flounce with snaps (also very cool for washing if you do anything outside, trust me) With different inner ties and those two waistband , I have ONE hoop, I repeat ONE HOOP that can be used from the Tudor farthingdale up to the bustle era... paniers included. I invested in sturdy materials... and quilted petticoats (those are pure magic!) and the thing has been a trooper for yeays now.

[@moth.faerie]

Omg this sounds amazing! I’ll have to look into this more, I’m having a little trouble visualizing because I can’t do anything without a visual aid haha but I’d love to try this out!!

[@picassomanu185]

@@moth.faerie It's not really easy to describe, but I could send you sketches if you're interested?

[@moth.faerie]

@@picassomanu185 i'd love that! you can dm me on instagram if you have it, i'm minjalinjee on there too!

[@Grapefruit_cosplay]

I'm really REALLY mad at the Algorithm for just NOW showing me your channel !!! You mean I could have been watching all this amazing historical and cosplay content for months ??? ARGH! I'm just glad I'm here now hahah

[@moth.faerie]

haha happy you're here now too! thank you for watching!!

[@RockinTheBassGuitar]

That's awesome! You can really see it all coming together. The silhouette is there already. 😍

[@moth.faerie]

thank you! yeah it's so exciting!! haha so much fun to swoosh around in already

[@makingpixierose]

Your videos always remind me how much I love chill sewing content.

[@KellyAK]

It's really interesting to hear your thought process and how you make your decisions, especially where you find the balance between historical and practical. I'm enjoying seeing this project come together!

[@moth.faerie]

ah I'm glad you're enjoying it, thank you for watching!

[@madamemoonscosplay]

The petticoat is really good. As soon as this showed up I had to click. I love seeing this project. As well as your cats. That little ekekekek baby bat did was sooo cute.

[@moth.faerie]

thank you! haha baby bat loves to chirp back at the birds 😊

[@melenatorr]

Talavera, confessor to Isabel the Catholic, would occasionally scold her for wearing the verdugada (farthingale), because he considered it indecent (he also scolded her for wearing colors like red and green together. Talavera scolded her a lot....). Isabel countered with an apology about the farthingale, explaining it was just more comfortable than other available styles. I don't know if you talked about this in your first video but the legend is that the style was improvised by Juana of Portugal, wife of Enrique IV (of Castile (Isabel's half-brother), to hide an illegitimate pregnancy, hence, probably, Talavera's concerns.

[@lizreiman1208]

I just recently started watching your videos and I like them a lot! I can't wait to see the dress when it's finished!

[@moth.faerie]

Ah thank you for watching! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos!

[@rubykaufman7410]

Wonderful to watch you, Minjee. Love, Grandma Ruby. P.S. Baby Bat is your co-star, for sure! 👵🏻😍👏

[@moth.faerie]

thank you for watching!

[@mariesok4874]

I would love to see a video about how you go about tackling a project. I love seeing into your journal with all the pictures and washi tape. Keep up the good work!

[@moth.faerie]

I definitely want to do a bullet journal video in the future, I'll have to think about a full project process video! It usually starts months and months before I even buy fabric haha

[@Rapturedance]

I love the Spanish farthingale so much more than the wheel farthingale! It looks great!

[@moth.faerie]

yes I agree haha the wheel farthingale is SUCH a funny look, I don't really understand how it got popular 😅

[@stevezytveld6585]

That came out so lovely. It's amazing how adaptable the clothing is to size fluctuations - maybe that's something we can bring back to help replace fast fashion. Well done. Hope you had a very good holiday season. And may this new year (?) be full of joy. As for me, I fell into the leather sewing rabbit hole - tools are in the mail. It all started because I watched a few YT doc's on the Chanel workshops. And almost all the seamstresses have their own unique leather pin pouch to hold their needles, pins, scissors and safety pins (rectangular pouch, hangs at about apex height by a chain). Thing is a brilliant piece of bespoke technology to help get the job done. If theatre is ever a thing again I want to start volunteering with the local Am-Dram that's been around the city since the 1920's. They have vintage costumes. And a mobile sewing kit that's hands-free sounds really useful for back-stage repairs. So I'm going to try wet-molding and sewing one for myself. And I've been coming up with side projects to practice on ever since... I'm starting with leather that I'm recycling from purses and jackets I find at second hand. And any new leather I buy is going to be coming from local Native producers/hunters. Anyways. That's what I'm planning to get me through the next lockdown. Things are scaling back for the next two weeks. Then we see what we see. I hope they leave the Christmas lights on for a silly amount of time. Take care. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

[@moth.faerie]

yeah lacing really makes things so much more adjustable! super worth the extra twenty minutes it takes to get dressed haha I had a good holiday season aside from all the travel stress! hope yours was also good! aaaah that sounds like such an exciting project, and so useful! it also sounds very cute! for one of our first year projects in grad school we made a drapers apron - it's a little apron that I wear in fittings and it has pockets for pencils, seam ripper, snips, chalk, and a tape measure and the rest of the space is taken up by a big pin cushion that I fill with safety pins before each fitting. it's super cute but doesnt wear very well when I wear big skirts haha, so a little leather pouch sounds like the perfect alternate accessory! i don't think the US is going into anymore lockdowns so we've kind of self-imposed a lockdown 😅 I have so much sewing to catch up on anyways! hope you're doing well!

[@stevezytveld6585]

@@moth.faerie We had a very nice and very, very quiet Christmas and New Years, thanks. Quebec and Ontario are shutting things down for the next two weeks in a wait 'n' see move. I have projects, the tools are arriving in the mail, here we go again. Again. Le sigh. That draping apron sounds absolutely brilliant. And, Chanel being itself, they shrunk it down and made it out of leather (because if you have it in-house, then why not). If you want a rabbit hold to fall down I watched one too many docs by Loic Prigent here on the YT.

[@rockencheesepuffs]

The shape of that is so pretty and it’s swoosh is wonderful lol. Love how this is all coming together.

[@moth.faerie]

Thank you!!

[@haliku9705]

I found one of your videos a bit back and now I’m watching this whole series through, and I just love your videos! This is such a fun project, and I can’t wait to follow you to the final result. Your kitty is such a fantastic sewing helper too!

[@moth.faerie]

Aw well thank you for watching!!

[@thedrinkinggames9573]

Looks amazing! Looking forward to the rest!

[@moth.faerie]

Thank you!

[@coreygilles847]

This is turning out so awesome!

[@moth.faerie]

thank you!!

[@jezmezz]

i need to make a farthingale for a costume soon so loved watching this. im a visual learner so will come back to this video often!

[@moth.faerie]

I'm glad it was helpful!

[@KittieRoses]

Oh my goodness, Baby Bat making that little clicking noise! I've never seen a cat do that before (and I have a TON of cat experience), it's so adorable.

[@moth.faerie]

she usually does the sound at birds! i was super confused the first time she did it, I thought the bird was making the sound haha

[@madzikdek]

I love how much cone shaped it looks it really sells the decade you are inspired by. Please pet baby bat from me, I'm vibrating with happiness whenever I see him

[@moth.faerie]

Thank you!! Haha I will definitely give baby bat some pets from you 😊

[@doemtij]

love seeing it all come together!! and your cat, he's so cute! that sound he made at (i guess) a bird, thank you for putting that in

[@moth.faerie]

thank you! haha i think it was a squirrel but she also loves to chatter at birds!

[@jac_and_the_making_of]

I wasn't going to make a farthingale... but it looks weirdly fun to wear.... and now I might need one

[@moth.faerie]

haha it's very swooshy and very fun, and didn't take very long to make so definitely recommend!

[@jac_and_the_making_of]

@@moth.faerie I love those kinds of projects! :D

[@tealduckduckgoose]

The hoops give a truly fascinating amount of "woosh" 😄

[@moth.faerie]

Haha it’s so much fun to walk around in!

[@sparklestheoctopus3120]

This was so neat to watch/learn about! :D Have you used the Farthingales cap pliers for spiral or other boning? In general do you like them? I'm trying to decide between getting the osgood press for grommets, etc + the farthingale pliers for boning caps or the goldstar press that has dies for both. The goldtsar product video didn't look too promising but I hadn't seen anyone using the farthingale pliers until you mentioned in them in your video so I'd love to know what you think! Thanks for another awesome video. I can't wait for the next one! :D

[@whimsicalmusedesign]

You should check out dress weights for the crinoline/farthingale. I think Angela Clayton has a video using them! Just in case you have the problem again!

[@moth.faerie]

yes definitely going to get some!

[@mandylavida]

Magnificent!

[@moth.faerie]

Thank you!

[@susiecarson]

You made it look easy! I really enjoy seeing your process. What is that tool you use around minute 13 that helps get the cord through the waist channel?

[@moth.faerie]

Haha compared to the rest of the costume this was pretty easy! It’s called a fasturn! I bought mine off of eBay since they don’t seem to make them anymore, they’re so much easier to use than what Joanns sells for tube turners

[@susiecarson]

@@moth.faerie Thank you! I’ll look there for one.

[@carlottadomenica2680]

Hello, I want to ask you where you can get the patterns for this project? did you buy them??? or did you find them in any publication?? I loved the whole process and would love to make myself one. I would really appreciate it if you did! ahhh and it's beautiful!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤❤❤❤👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@cinthya3676]

Genial pero ¿como se llama o donde compras la pieza metálica que use las varillas de plástico de la falda?

[@kyradavis8727]

Would you think a Tudor style gown could be paired with an 1860s and 1870s hoop skirt?"

[@armedvsokord]

Maybe hem weights in the front if it swings forward to much?

[@moth.faerie]

yes definitely going to get some dress weights!

[@LixiaWinter]

So, the hihgest hoop is a little above the knee? Is it easy to sit down while wearing? I'm planning to make one for theater costume and don't want the actress to hate me🤣 Also, kitty doing "ekekekek" is just👌👌👌👌

[@moth.faerie]

Yes I believe that’s about where it hits. I actually didn’t try sitting down in this one 😅 but I imagine with the highest hoop where it is it probably swings forward and looks pretty silly so if your actress needs to sit on stage it might be better to do them lower? I think the blog post with the instructions actually does keep them lower and less spaced apart so I think that should be fine

[@LixiaWinter]

@@moth.faerie thank you so much! If I get good pics, I will tag you on ig

[@kathleenwhalen1450]

I wear a Spanish Farthingale for the Renaissance Festival and my top hoop is between knee & mid thigh. When sitting just shift it (as you sit) above the contract point in the back. If you lean forward a bit it can naturally do this depending upon the skirt weight & design.

[@LixiaWinter]

Thank you so much!

[@ashfordwyrd7458]

ekekekkekkekek baby bat... your human is doing the fabric thing again.

[@amberkirk4212]

Amazing ✊🏽 👍🍉🤣

[@moth.faerie]

thank you!

[@mkcheergrl12]

Don’t forget a bum roll it helps greatly

[@moth.faerie]

I made one in the second half of the video!

[@mkcheergrl12]

@@moth.faerie I saw you did great

[@kathleenwhalen1450]

If the skirts dont want to sit properly due to weight distribution and weights to the front. 😋 just like drapes

[@moth.faerie]

yes definitely going to add some weights to the front!